Can't edit text -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 28/10/09 15:05, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 01:45pm on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 (UK time), Bob Goodwin scrawled:
>
>    
>>     I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice
>>     word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything?
>>
>>     I can open a document and copy it to a new file but it doesn't trust
>>     me to change anything, a matter of permissions perhaps but I can't
>>     see where to change it.
>>
>>     Am I alone in this, can anyone tell me what I need to do?
>>      
> I saw similar symptoms a while back.
>
> Are the files on the local machine, or are they on an NFS mount?  If the
> latter, try (temporarily) taking down the firewall on the server.
>
> If that works, look here for more details:
> http://www.stevesearle.com/tech/faq.html#nfs0010
>
> Steve
>
>    
I don't remember how I copied them but I had all the old F-10 files on 
the nfs server and quite likely took them from there. At any rate I've 
got things working with some external stimulation from this mailing list.

Thanks again

Bob